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diff --git a/docs/Changelog.md b/docs/Changelog.md index 8bbb4e19..f7bc9600 100644 --- a/docs/Changelog.md +++ b/docs/Changelog.md @@ -14,6 +14,10 @@ sending a mail to <afl-users+subscribe@googlegroups.com>. - Fix for auto dictionary entries found during fuzzing to not throw out a -x dictionary - added total execs done to plot file + - AFL_MAX_DET_EXTRAS env variable added to control the amount of deterministic + dict entries without recompiling. + - AFL_FORKSRV_INIT_TMOUT env variable added to control the time to wait for + the forkserver to come up without the need to increase the overall timeout. - llvm_mode: - Ported SanCov to LTO, and made it the default for LTO. better instrumentation locations diff --git a/docs/env_variables.md b/docs/env_variables.md index 94c34400..e8129a3f 100644 --- a/docs/env_variables.md +++ b/docs/env_variables.md @@ -278,6 +278,14 @@ checks or alter some of the more exotic semantics of the tool: don't want AFL to spend too much time classifying that stuff and just rapidly put all timeouts in that bin. + - Setting AFL_FORKSRV_INIT_TMOUT allows yout to specify a different timeout + to wait for the forkserver to spin up. The default is the `-t` value times + `FORK_WAIT_MULT` from `config.h` (usually 10), so for a `-t 100`, the + default would wait `1000` milis. Setting a different time here is useful + if the target has a very slow startup time, for example when doing + full-system fuzzing or emulation, but you don't want the actual runs + to wait too long for timeouts. + - AFL_NO_ARITH causes AFL to skip most of the deterministic arithmetics. This can be useful to speed up the fuzzing of text-based file formats. @@ -361,6 +369,13 @@ checks or alter some of the more exotic semantics of the tool: for an existing out folder, even if a different `-i` was provided. Without this setting, afl-fuzz will refuse execution for a long-fuzzed out dir. + - Setting AFL_MAX_DET_EXRAS will change the threshold at what number of elements + in the `-x` dictionary and LTO autodict (combined) the probabilistic mode will + kick off. In probabilistic mode, not all dictionary entires will be used all + of the times for fuzzing mutations to not make fuzzing slower by it. + The default count is `200` element. So for the 200 + 1st element, there is a + 1 in 201 chance, that one of the dictionary entry will not be used directly. + - Setting AFL_NO_FORKSRV disables the forkserver optimization, reverting to fork + execve() call for every tested input. This is useful mostly when working with unruly libraries that create threads or do other crazy |